Journal ArticlePamiętnik Teatralny · October 3, 2022
Instroduction to essay cluster on new methods of biographical writing/performing. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
Beth Holmgren charts the modes in which men functioned as gatekeepers in nineteenth-century professional theatre, which showed not only the parochialism of their views but a deep anxiety around sexuality that required the disciplining of women’s bodies on ...
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Book · August 19, 2021
Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much m ...
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Journal ArticleShofar · January 1, 2019
This short essay presents an analytical update of how scholars, curators, and stewards are responding to the xenophobic climate and nationalist censorship being generated by the current Polish government under the rule of the right-wing Law and Justice (Pi ...
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Chapter · October 30, 2018
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Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments to take place in Poland over the last one hundred years. ...
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Book · January 1, 2016
Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted “crimes” and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot,the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Ba ...
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Journal ArticlePamiętnik Teatralny · October 3, 2022
Instroduction to essay cluster on new methods of biographical writing/performing. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
Beth Holmgren charts the modes in which men functioned as gatekeepers in nineteenth-century professional theatre, which showed not only the parochialism of their views but a deep anxiety around sexuality that required the disciplining of women’s bodies on ...
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Book · August 19, 2021
Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much m ...
Cite
Journal ArticleShofar · January 1, 2019
This short essay presents an analytical update of how scholars, curators, and stewards are responding to the xenophobic climate and nationalist censorship being generated by the current Polish government under the rule of the right-wing Law and Justice (Pi ...
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Chapter · October 30, 2018
Featured Publication
Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments to take place in Poland over the last one hundred years. ...
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Book · January 1, 2016
Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted “crimes” and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot,the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Ba ...
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Journal ArticleThe Polish Review · December 1, 2014
AbstractThe article introduces and then gives a transcription of an interview with Anna Mieszkowska, an archivist at the Polish Academy of Sciences who specializes in collecting materials relating to Polish ...
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Journal ArticleEast European Politics and Societies · May 1, 2013
In the turbulent context of interwar Polish politics, a period bookended by the right-wing nationalists' repression of an ethnically heterogeneous state, several popular high-quality cabarets persisted in Warsaw even as they provoked and defied the nationa ...
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Book · January 1, 2013
Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2013
When the United States and the Soviet Union joined forces in World War II, Hollywood undertook an international mission of daunting complexity. Invaded by the Germans in June 1941, the Soviet Union ceased being the Third Reich’s willing partner under the t ...
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Book · January 1, 2013
Over two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, dramatic events marking the end of a sometimes terrifying, mainly stultifying, Cold War between two global superpowers. The Soviet Union’s rapid disin ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2013
In many ways, Marina Goldovskaya’s visual oeuvre and the trajectory of her life echo the major themes of this volume. Her remarkable documentariesfrom the award-winning Solovki Power (1988), a harsh indictment of the gulag system, to A Bitter Taste of Free ...
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Book · November 10, 2011
Starring Madame Modjeska traces Modjeska's fabulous life and career from her illegitimate birth in Krakow, to her successive reinventions of herself as a star in both Poland and America, and finally to her enduring legacy. ...
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Journal ArticleTheatre Journal · October 1, 2010
When Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's premier actress, quit the Warsaw Imperial Theaters in 1876 for a year's leave of absence in the United States, she secretly planned an English-language debut in San Francisco, a sophisticated yet less demanding theatre to ...
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Chapter · 2007
This essay investigates an instance of the ambiguous overlap between “artful” nonfiction and historical fiction – specifically, how the nonfictional Memories and Impressions of the great Polish/American actress Helena Modjeska (1840-1909) in fact furnished ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2006
In 1893 I was invited by the Committee of the World's Fair Auxiliary Women's Congress, in Chicago, to take part in the theatrical section of the Congress and to say something about "Woman on the Stage".... It may be remembered that one of the features of t ...
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Book · 1999
The editors' informative introduction places the novel within its cultural, political, and social context and makes clear for today's readers its literary and historical importance. ...
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Book · December 15, 1998
In this ground-breaking book, Beth Holmgren examines how—in turn-of-the-century Russia and its subject, the Kingdom of Poland—capitalism affected the elitist culture of literature, publishing, book markets, and readership. ...
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Book · January 1, 1993
. The writing is excellent throughout.ÓÊÑBarbara Heldt, University of British Columbia Focusing on the works of Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam, Beth Holmgren reclaims the extraordinary roles that women writers played as ... ...
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